This cluster focuses on the social institutions and cultural frameworks in which economic behavior is embedded. Research in this area includes such topics as the social meanings of money and work, the social organization of markets and firms, and the dynamics of labor unions. Students interested in this field join the rest of their colleagues in the weekly Economic Sociology Workshop. Several faculty within the department specialize in this area and offer training through a variety of seminars, funded research projects, and cooperative arrangements with such units as the Industrial Relations Section of the Economics Department and the Woodrow Wilson School. An on-going workshop and a series of colloquium speakers that bring leading sociologists and economists to campus from other universities are also part of the training provided in this cluster.